Mark and Walker talk to Evan Greer, director of the nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future, about online censorship, net neutrality, the battle against disinformation, and punk rock. Greer is a longtime digital privacy rights activist, writer, and musician based in Boston, Massachusetts. This full episode is free. Most Gilded Age episodes are available to OptOut Media Foundation donors. Support us here: https://originals.optout.news/#/portal/signup Learn about the OptOut independent media aggregation app: https://www.optout.news Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod Fight for the Future: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/ Follow Evan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/evan_greer Follow Evan on Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@evangreer

Alex and Walker talk with Tom Scocca, the editor-in-chief of POPULA and former editor at Slate, Gawker, and Deadspin, about the new Star Wars series Andor. This "Star Wars for adults" show was surprisingly good, offering complex characters, an eerie look at the banality of evil behind the fascistic Empire, an exploration of class and exploitation, and a lot more. This is a preview of our full discussion. To unlock the full episode, become a recurring donor to the OptOut Media Foundation: https://originals.optout.news/#/portal/signup. Learn about the OptOut independent media aggregation app: https://www.optout.news Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod

U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) joins the Gilded Boys to discuss the recent midterm elections, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia, COVID-19, and Elon Musk's destruction of Twitter. What are the key takeaways from the midterms? Has the Biden administration heeded Khanna's call to use diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine? Have Democrats done enough to protect us from COVID? And what's the best ownership scenario for Twitter? Khanna answers these and other questions. Most full episodes are for recurring donors to the OptOut Media Foundation, a nonprofit charity that publishes Gilded Age and runs an independent news aggregation app, OptOut news. We are offering this episode for free in full.  For future full episodes, become a paid supporter of OptOut: https://originals.optout.news/#/portal/signup. Learn about the OptOut app: https://www.optout.news/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod

Is Democracy over in the U.S.? It sure might be. Alex and Walker talk with David Daley, the author of the national best-seller on partisan gerrymandering "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" and "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy," about how colossally f*cked we'll be when the GOP gerrymanders congressional and state legislative districts in the coming months. Congressional Democrats could stop this, but some senators and the president seem content to cede power to the anti-democratic GOP for the next decade or more. Follow David Daley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davedaley3?lang=en Follow Gilded Age on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GildedAgePod Subscribe to Gilded Age on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Check out the new independent news app we're part of: https://www.optout.news/

In this episode, the Gilded Boys speak with author, scholar, and holistic justice activist Dr. Sara Kamali about her new book, Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States. "Holistic justice moves beyond anti-racism to anti-oppression in order to address militant white nationalism and end the disproportionate vilification of Muslim Americans and other marginalized groups," says Dr. Kamali. Buy the book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520360020/homegrown-hate Dr. Kamali's website: https://www.sarakamali.com/ Follow Dr. Kamali on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarakamali Support Gilded Age on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Follow Gilded Age on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GildedAgePod Check out OptOut, the forthcoming news app for exclusively independent media: https://www.optout.news/

Epidemiologist, geneticist, and Ph.D. Deepti Gurdasani, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, joins Gilded Age to debunk myths about Covid-19, including some spread by health experts and governments, and answer questions about health and safety precautions. Follow Dr. Gurdasani on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1 Please consider becoming a paid support of Gilded Age on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GildedAgePod Gilded Age is published by OptOut, a forthcoming news app for exclusively independent media. Find out more about OptOut: https://www.optout.news

Epidemiologist and Harvard fellow Justin Feldman talks with the Gilded Boys about the United States' mishandling of Covid-19 and whether, or if, the pandemic will end. Follow Dr. Feldman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jfeldman_epi Read Dr. Feldman's Jacobin article on the coronavirus: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/covid-19-business-work-public-health Subscribe to Gilded Age on Patreon to help us continue producing episodes like this: https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Follow Gilded Age on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GildedAgePod Check out a forthcoming independent media app that we're part of: https://www.optout.news/

Mark and Walker have a wide-ranging discussion with author and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson about the corporate oligarchy that dominates the U.S., spirituality, Covid-19, and lots more. Read Williamson's latest op-ed, "The United States of Oligarchy" https://www.newsweek.com/united-states-oligarchy-opinion-1575266 Follow Williamson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marwilliamson Listen to Williamson's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1536043190 Please subscribe to our Patreon. We appreciate it. https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod Check out our forthcoming news app for independent media, OptOut: https://www.optoutnews.org/

The Gilded Boys chat with Eoin Higgins about demilitarizing the police, especially how it relates to the Jan. 6 insurrection. We also discuss the controversy surrounding those $2,000—er, $1,400—checks that Biden's pushing for. Follow Eoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_ Read Eoin's recent op-ed about demilitarization: https://www.businessinsider.com/rioters-riots-capitol-police-defund-disarm-demilitarize-insurrection-accountability-2021-1 Check out Eoin's newsletter, The Flashpoint: https://theflashpoint.substack.com/ Please subscribe to our Patreon. We appreciate it. https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod Check out our forthcoming news app for independent media, OptOut: https://www.optoutnews.org/

New York State Rep. Ron Kim joins the Gilded Boys to talk about the dire circumstances in his state due to COVID-19 and the governor's refusal to raise taxes on billionaires to fund relief efforts. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/DxvaT_BQXJM Follow Rep. Kim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rontkim Please subscribe to our Patreon. We appreciate it. https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod Check out our forthcoming news app for independent media, OptOut: https://www.optoutnews.org/